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THE PLAGUE SYMPHONY

Black Death Metal Plague from Coventry as seen with...
Visceral Bleeding, The Power and The Glory, The Setup, The Seventh Cross,
Narcosis, Shaped By Fate, Municipal Waste, Mistress, Suicide Silence,
Abigail Williams, Bring Me The Horizon, Architects, Eternal Lord and lots more.

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The Plague Symphony album review by Toxic Pete

Cor blimey!! I suppose I shouldn't be surprised though, the name, The Plague Symphony and album title 'The Black Gate' contain all the clues you need. This is mind-numbing, ear-wax melting, sinus clearing metal at its most vicious.

The press info says "...brutal, grinding powerhouse of metal. They mix death metal, grind & hardcore resulting in a devastating onslaught to the aural senses." They're not kiddin' either - this is a heavy monster in the heaviest sense!

Is it a short album? Or, is it a long EP? Or, maybe it's a mini-album - I'm not too sure. In less than eighteen minutes and just seven short tracks, The Plague Symphony have started to peel the wallpaper from the room I'm in, the cat's done a runner and the neighbours have put up 'for sale' signs. Oh yes, this is that devastating and as black as it gets really. Musically these dudes can't be faulted - solidly tight, electrically charged and adrenalin fuelled. Vocally, well I don't actually know how these people do it - and it's so difficult to make constructive comments at all. Suffice to say that this guy has a voice to match all-comers (within the genre!).

I still can't quite come to terms completely with the 'vocal' delivery within this genre; lyrics written and carefully thought out only to be ranted and grunted into the mic and often lost within the confines of the ear-splitting instrumentation. But hey, that's rock 'n' roll - isn't it? Seriously though, these guys from Coventry deliver some superb stuff; there's an abundance of well thunked out riffs running riot over and through the dark landscape of a well tight rhythm section.

So, if death metal/grind/hardcore is what you get off on, 'The Black Gate' from The Plague Symphony would make a great Xmas present (don't leave it under the tree though, it's likely to self-combust!). If not, you'd probably do well to miss it off your presents list.